Pramila Jayapal Quotes
Those who have the most power - whether famous TV anchors, rich Hollywood moguls, judges, Members of Congress, or the president of the United States - must decide how to exert that power: for corruption or for good.
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Traditionally, open-minded secular liberal rationalists have not made a case for tolerance.
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There is nothing people can throw at me to say: 'Do this, do that.'
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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Action is the foundational key to all success.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.
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I don't look at myself as suffering.
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Prayer is man's greatest power!
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In the late '90s, I spent a lot of time on reservations, and there was a level of poverty and injustice that I had not witnessed before. I was shocked by it. This is federally controlled land, and there was an insidious mix of apathy and exploitation.
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Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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A lot of people like to run in plays because it's a nice, steady job.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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The idea that I could push the envelope using dedication and research and endless curiosity has propelled me in my life's work.
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I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.
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I've been brought up with the Christian faith with my family.
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My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
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Buildings are forms of performances.
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Everyone thinks I have a coffee plantation in Sierra Leone, but I have a cashew crop project. I wrote about a woman who owns a coffee plantation! When you are talking about a woman writer coming from a hot country, there's a complete assumption that she is writing about her own life.
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Loyalty is a feature in a boy's character that inspires boundless hope.
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My enemies say I am now carrying on this war for the sole purpose of abolition. It is and will be carried on so long as I am President for the sole purpose of restoring the Union. But no human power can subdue this rebellion without using the Emancipation lever as I have done.
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When you have a first half like that nine times out of 10 you're gonna have good lead. Guys are coming out with a sense of urgency the positive thing about that is that it's happening now.
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Those who have the most power - whether famous TV anchors, rich Hollywood moguls, judges, Members of Congress, or the president of the United States - must decide how to exert that power: for corruption or for good.
